Posting the male : : masculinities in post-war and contemporary British literature / / edited by Daniel Lea and Berthold Schoene.

• Superior document: Genus--gender in modern culture ; 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Lea, Daniel,; Schoene-Harwood, Berthold,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, New York : : Editions Rodopi B.V.,, [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Genus--gender in modern culture ; 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (171 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004456651
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Daniel Lea and Berthold Schoene.

The essays collected in Posting the Male examine representations of masculinity in post-war and contemporary British literature, focussing on the works of writers as diverse as John Osborne, Joe Orton, James Kelman, Ian Rankin, Carol Ann Duffy, Alan Hollinghurst, Ian McEwan, Graham Swift and Jackie Kay. The collection seeks to capture the current historical moment of 'crisis', at which masculinity loses its universal transparency and becomes visible as a performative gender construct. Rather than denoting just one fixed, polarised point on a hierarchised axis of strictly segregated gender binaries, masculinity is revealed to oscillate within a virtually limitless spectrum of gender identities, characterised not by purity and self-containment but by difference and alterity. As the contributors demonstrate, rather than a gender 'in crisis' millennial manhood is a gender 'in transition'. Patriarchal strategies of man-making are gradually being replaced by less exclusionary patterns of self-identification inspired by feminism. Men have begun to recognise themselves as gendered beings and, as a result, masculinity has been set in motion.